MRE's for Dinner Anyone

[Chucktshoes]

Funnay!

MRE dinner date

The following is apparently a true story.... told from the point of view of a young Marine.

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I had a date the other night at my place. On the phone the day before, the girl asked me to "Cook her something she's never had before" for dinner. After many minutes of scratching my head over what to make, I finally settled on something she has DEFINITELY never eaten.

I got out my trusty case of MRE's. Meal, Ready-to-Eat, field rations that when eaten in their entirety contain 3000+ calories. Here's what I made:

I took three of the Ham Slices out of their plastic packets, took out three of the Pork Chops, three packets of Chicken-a-la- King, and eight packets of dehydrated butter noodles and some dehydrated/rehydrated rice.

I cooked the Ham Slices and Pork Chops in one pan, sautéed in shaved garlic and olive oil.

In another pot, I blended the Chicken a-la-king, noodles, and rice together to make a sort of mush that looked suspiciously like succotash. I added some spices, and blended everything together in a glass pan that I then cooked in the oven for about 35 minutes at 450 degrees.

When I took it out, it looked like, well, ham slices, pork chops, and a bed of yellow poop. I covered the tops of the meat in the MRE cheese (kinda like Velveeta) and added some green sprinkly things from one of my spice cans (hey, if it's got green sprinkly things on it, it looks fancy right?)

For dessert, I took four Pound Cakes, mashed 'em up, added five packets of cocoa powder, powdered coffee cream, and some water. I heated it up and stirred it until it looked like a sort of chunky gelatinous organism, and I sprinkled powdered sugar on top of it. Voila - Ranger Pudding.

For alcoholic drinks, I took the rest of my bottle of Military Special Vodka (yes, they DO make a type of liquor named 'Military Special' - it sells for $4.35 per fifth at the Package Store) and mixed in four packets of 'Electrolytes - 1 each - Cherry flavored' (I swear, the packet says that). It looked like an eerie kool-aid with sparkles in it (that was the electrolytes I guess... could've been leftover sand from Iraq for all I know).

I lit two candles, put a vase of wildflowers in the middle, and set the table with my best set of Ralph Lauren Academy-series China (that **** is EXPENSIVE... my set of 8 place settings cost me over $600 on sale at the Lejeune PX and put the alcoholic drink in a crystal wine decanter.

My date came over, and I had some appetizers already made, of MRE spaghetti-with-meatballs, set in small cups. She saw the dinner, saw the food, and said "This looks INCREDIBLE!!!"

We dug in, and she was loving the food. Throughout the meal, she kept asking me how long it took me to make it, and kept remarking that I obviously knew a thing or two about cooking fine meals. She kind of balked at the makeshift 'wine' I had set out, but after she tried it I guess she liked it because she drank four glasses during dinner.

At the end of the main course, when I served the dessert, she squealed with delight at the 'Chocolate mousse' I had made. Huh? Chocolate what? Okay... yeah... its Chocolate Moose. Took me HOURS to make... yup.

Later on, as we were watching a movie, she excused herself to use my rest room. While she was in there, I heard her say softly to herself 'uh oh' and a resounding but petite fart punctuated her utterance of dismay.

Let the games begin.

She sprayed about half a can of air freshener (Air Freshener, 1 each, Orange scent. Yup. The military even makes smell-good) and returned to the couch, this time with an obvious pained look.

After 10 more minutes she excused herself again, and retreated to the bathroom for the second time, I could hear her say 'What the h3ll is WRONG with me?' as she again sent flatulent shock waves into the porcelain bowl. This time, they sounded kinda wet, and I heard the toilet paper roll being employed, and again, LOTS more air freshener!

Back to the couch. She smiles meekly as she decides to sit on the chair instead of next to me. She sits on my chair, knees pulled up to her chest, kind of rocking back and forth slightly. Suddenly, without a word, she ROCKETED up and FLEW to the bathroom, slammed the door, and didn't come out for 30 minutes. I turned the movie up because I didn't want her to hear me laughing so hard that tears were streaming down my cheeks.

She came out with a slightly gray pallor to her face, and said "I am SOOOOOO sorry. I have NO idea what is wrong with me. I am so embarrassed; I can't believe I keep running to your bathroom!!" I gave her an Imodium AD, and she finally settled down and relaxed. Later on, she asked me again wha t I had made for dinner, because she had enjoyed it so much. I calmly took her into the kitchen and showed her all the used MRE bags and packets in the trash can.

After explaining to her that she had eaten roughly 9,000 calories of 'Marine Corps Field Rations' she turned stark white, looked at me incredulously, and said "I ate 9,000 calories of dehydrated food that was made 3 years ago?"

After I rogered, she grabbed her coat and keys, and took off without a word.

She called me yesterday. Seems she couldn't crap for 5 days, and when she finally did, the smell was so bad, her roommate could smell it from down the hall. She also told me she had been working out nonstop to combat the high caloric intake, and that she never wanted me to cook dinner for her again, unless she was PERSONALLY there to inspect the food beforehand.

It was a fun date! She laughed about it eventually and said that that was the first time she'd ever crapped in a guy's house on a date. She'd been so upset by it she was in tears in the bathroom while I had been in tears on the couch.

I know... I'm an a$$hole, but it was still a funny night!

Semper-Fi

[Guest ScottD]

Hoooahhh!

[Guest mustangdave]

SEMPER FI Marine!!! you are THE MAN Uhhhh-Rahhhhh...as i wipe the tears out of my eyes from laffing

[Ghooge2008]

thats great! I tried to convince my wife we could save money while on vacation to gatlinburg if we ate in dinner one night and breakfast another day...Well I took her to the camping section of walmart and tried to convince her the mountain house freeze dried stuff would be good because we had no way to cook in the motel....just a fridge and a coffee pot and we could just add hot water to the bag and have beef stroganoff for dinner...she was less than thrilled with my idea...we went over budget while in g-burg!

[E4 No More]

That was F'n awesome! Semper Fi!

[nightrunner]

oh , thats awesome! priceless!

[R1100R]

That was a great story! Hooah!!!

[Guest LieutenantDan67]

Good lord that was funny! Sent it to my Marine son and my Marine dad. LOL

[Guest Todd@CIS]

LOL, I guess there's Marine Dating SOPs and Air Force Dating SOPs.

My Air Force manual says that if you tie up a date's gastrointestinal tract that bad, you ain't gettin' any!

I'll stick with the Air Force SOPs. :D

Edited July 3, 2009 by Todd@CIS

[Guest page90lx]

LOL, To funny

[Guest Swamprunner]

Don't do it again. Especially if you get married to the gal. I've been serving pennance for thirty years for some of the stupid crap I've done to wifey. I'm a quick study.

[Chucktshoes]

^ Well considering it isn't my story but one of those things you find on "the internets" I won't be serving penance for that incident, however my wife has an inch thick file on the other stupid crap i've pulled.

-> Todd@CIS I read that same manual when I was stationed @ Cannon AFB, and you know, I remember a corollary to it where if you tie up your own digestive tract that bad and she smells it, you ain't getting any either.